1. Heading the list of the first thirteen voters, all of whom voted for GW, were the proprietor of the Northern Neck (Lord Fairfax), the rector of Frederick Parish (William Meldrum), and the founder and leading citizen of Winchester (James Wood) who was sitting in for GW at the table where the freeholders came to announce their choices for the two men to represent the county in Williamsburg. The next five men to vote were merchants, from Alexandria (John Carlyle), from Falmouth on the Rappahannock (Adam Hunter and Alexander Wodrow), and from Fredericksburg (Fielding Lewis and Charles Dick), all of whom were in Winchester to lend their support in the election to GW and, except for Wodrow, to Martin as well. Four of the next five freeholders to vote, all from Frederick County, included a former Burgess (Isaac Perkins), two men from large and prominent frontier families (Robert Ashby and Alexander Vance) whom GW had known at least since his days as a surveyor in the county in 1750–51, and a former lieutenant of a ranging company under GW (Thomas Lemen). The other man among the first thirteen voters was GW’s regimental surgeon (James Craik), who had come down from Fort Cumberland to give his support. Of the other prominent men who came to Frederick County to promote GW’s candidacy, two (George William Fairfax and Gabriel Jones) voted later in the day.

2. GW wrote “McGee.”

3. GW wrote “Harbinger.”

4. GW wrote “Clark.”

5. GW wrote “Hyatt.”

6. GW wrote “Baldwin.”

7. GW lists John Allan Taylor with the A’s, which perhaps indicates that the man’s name was Allan and that he was a tailor by trade.

8. The names of Martin Funk, Samuel Vance, and Robert Steward appear twice.

9. GW wrote “Jno.ston.”

10. GW wrote “McMahan.”

11. See note 10.

12. Valentine Crawford’s right to vote must have been challenged. See 4 Hening description begins William Waller Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619. 13 vols. 1819–23. Reprint. Charlottesville, Va., 1969. description ends 475–78 for the oath to be taken in such circumstances.

13. GW wrote “Colston.”

14. See note 9.

15. GW wrote “Snickers.”

16. GW wrote “Grinnan.”

17. GW wrote “Baylis.”